{"id":4629,"date":"2017-07-23T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2017-07-23T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T22:36:56","slug":"july-23-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4629","title":{"rendered":"July 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Back from holidays, so Invertebrate Alert is back in business – slowly as I recover from jet lag.   I saw lots of butterflies on the Sussex South Downs, largely thanks to Sussex butterfly enthusiast David Harris.  One of the most memorable was a Chalkhill Blue nectaring on a Round-headed Rampion – both species iconic symbols of the Sussex South Downs.  Also, not one, but two sightings of the absolutely enormous syrphid fly Volucella zonaria<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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   Anyway, some unfinished business first. The moth\/caddisfly with the very long antennae photographed by Ken Vaughan (see July 5 posting) has been identified by Claudia Copley and Libby Avis as a caddisfly<\/strong> (as originally suggested by Ken) of the family Leptoceridae<\/strong>, possibly, suggested by Libby, of the genus Oecetis<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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  More unfinished business.  Nick Doe found several of these small moths on Gabriola Island in June 27.  He has since identified them as Protodeltote albidula<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Protodeltote albidula <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Nick Doe<\/p>\n

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   Val George sends a photograph of Coryphista meadii<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>from his Oak Bay garden, July 16. The caterpillar feeds on Mahonia <\/em> and Berberis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George.<\/div>\n

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   Jeff Gaskin writes:  I have been doing quite a bit of looking for butterflies since it is butterfly count week and here are a few of my findings.<\/p>\n

July 15, was the date of my first Pine White<\/strong> which was from the highway or Sooke Road near the View Royal Casino<\/p>\n

July 19,  a Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> in Finnerty Gardens at UVic.<\/p>\n

July 18,  6 Pine Whites<\/strong> near the View Royal Casino as seen from the highway or Sooke Road,  and a Painted Lady<\/strong> at Tower Point.<\/p>\n

July 17, a Large Heath<\/strong> or “Ringlet”  in Layritz Park south of Markham Road and a Woodland Skipper<\/strong> on nearby Broadcast Hill.<\/p>\n

July 17, on Mount Tolmie at 5 p.m. 1 West Coast Lady, 2 Red Admirals, and 5 Painted Ladies <\/strong>all near the concrete reservoir.<\/p>\n

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   Annie Pang sends a photograph of a Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong> from Gorge Park, July 16.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)  Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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   We have a few photos in the queue awaiting identification. <\/p>\n

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2017 July 23     Jeremy Tatum writes:  Back from holidays, so Invertebrate Alert is back in business – slowly as I recover from jet lag.   I saw lots of butterflies on the Sussex South Downs, largely thanks to Sussex butterfly enthusiast David Harris.  One of the most memorable was a Chalkhill Blue nectaring on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}